Google Drive Workspace – An Office In The Cloud

The ease at which we can create documents, share and collaborate means that Google is a great platform for “getting on and doing it”. However many people report issues in finding that document again once it’s been created.  Partly this is due to Google being first and foremost a search engine and expecting us to […]

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How to Limit Responses in Google Forms

Google Forms is a great tool to collate responses from others online, whether it’s a job application or getting feedback from your customers on your products or service – you can start building surveys online today for free!  Google Forms allows you to connect info to a spreadsheet on Sheets to automatically record the answers. […]

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Emailing and Downloading in Different Formats in Google Workspace

One of the common issues that we hear when discussing migrating a company over to Google Workspace is the need for it to work seamlessly with external legacy systems and organisations. While visitor sharing or pincode sharing does make a massive difference (more information here), especially when emailing out to partners, legacy systems may still […]

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How to Change Your Gmail Signature

Email signatures are the best way to let your professional contacts know more about you, yet a lot of Gmail users aren’t aware of how to insert a Gmail signature. You can add all of the necessary information and you don’t have to worry about signing off your emails. It’s also useful if you’re in […]

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The Paperless Office Agenda

The paperless office is back on the agenda – virtually of course! For many years, business owners and managers have been striving to achieve using less paper in their workplace. The new work from home norm has demonstrated that this can easily be achieved. There was a fear that efficiency would suffer or that the […]

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Google Workspace Tip Top Tip – Canned Email Responses

The 16th of this month (February 2021) sees the one year anniversary of the death of Larry Tesler.  You may not know who he is, but as you are likely using a computer I am almost certain you have used his most famous invention.   Tesler was born on April 24, 1945, in the Bronx in […]

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Digital Transformation Industry Focus: Medical

Health service providers had always identified the opportunities for technology to support the health and social care sector but it appears to have taken the pandemic to provide the catalyst. It’s likely that the first questions from your doctor’s surgery or medical centre have now changed when an appointment is required. No longer will medical […]

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Digital Transformation Industry Focus: Sales & Recruitment

There is a new term in the HR industry; hybrid recruitment. As much as face to face recruitment continues to take place, it has dwindled considerably by the onset of the pandemic. Companies and recruiters alike are increasingly using digital strategies to recruit into vacant positions in order to keep open vacancies low. The main […]

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Google Workspace Training Tip: Organising Your Drive

What is Google Drive? Think of Google Drive as a 2021 version of a hard drive. You may have heard the term “cloud computing” being used more frequently in recent years and Google Drive is part of it; a cloud-based storage solution that allows you to save files online and access them from any smartphone, […]

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Taming Your Inbox

Let me start by saying, I don’t like email. I think there are far better methods of communicating (especially internally) and I also think that in many cases email should be the last choice solution. I have many reasons for my disliking, almost as many as the unread messages you may currently have in your […]

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